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| Company Name and Address per Centralized Master Bid List COMSYS Information Technology Services, Inc. 301 Congress Ave., Suite 210 Austin, TX 78701 |
April 1, 1998
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Catalogue Effective Date
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Order Mailing Address COMSYS Information Technology Services, Inc. 301 Congress Ave., Suite 210 Austin, TX 78701 |
Company Contact Information Contact Name: Greg Stevens Email: gstevens@comsys.com Contact Name: Dana Potter Email: : dpotter@comsys.com Phone No: (512) 794-8848 Fax No: (512) 794-0885 |
| Other Information (if applicable): | Formerly known as Metamor-ITS and Cutler/Williams, Inc. | HUB Certified: x No Yes If yes, ethnicity code: |
| Note to State Agencies: If this Qualified Information Systems Vendor provides consulting services and if the value of the consulting contract is reasonably foreseen to exceed $10,000.00, please refer to the Private Consultants Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 2254, Subchapter B. |
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By signing the GSC QISV Catalogue Purchasing Program application and submitting this catalogue through the program, the vendor has reviewed TAC 113.19, and agrees to comply with the rules as stated for the QISV program. The vendor will also:
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Information contained in this catalogue has been developed for all eligible purchasers of the State of Texas. This is a true and accurate copy of the catalogue approved and on file with the General Services Commission. Any licensing agreements or other contracts necessary to provide products or services to any eligible purchaser will be obtained, maintained concurrently with the provided products or services, and made available upon request.
COMSYS currently provides services only (no product offerings at this time) to eligible purchasers of this catalogue. However, in the event that products become available, those products offered, all pricing quotations and discounts, as well as a separate alphabetical index/cross-reference of those products will be promptly delivered to those eligible purchasers who have obtained our catalogues.
Orders may be placed by telephone, facsimile, U.S. mail or email. Contact information is provided below.
| Point-of-Contact: | Greg Stevens, Branch Director |
| Mailing Address: | COMSYS Information Technology Services One Park North 301 Congress Ave., Suite 210 Austin, TX 78701 |
| Telephone: | (512) 794-8848 (800) 543-0247 |
| Facsimile: | (512) 794-0885 |
| Email: | gstevens@comsys.com |
COMSYS Information Technology Services is registered to do business for the following classifications of items:
CLASS 918 - CONSULTING SERVICES
CLASS 920 - DATA PROCESSING SERVICES
CLASS 964 - PERSONNEL, TEMPORARY (EMPLOYMENT AGENCY SERVICES)
See PRICING section regarding these classifications.
COMSYS, a Forbes 500 Top Private Company, has a continuing 32-year mission: Be the one place that IT managers call when they need help.
COMSYS is in the business of helping IT organizations operate more productively and profitably through a full spectrum of specialized staffing and project implementation products and services. We specialize in the areas of Systems Integration/EAI, ERP Functionality Extension, Business/Data Warehousing, Sales Force Automation/CRM, Middleware Functionality Templates, and Custom Application Development for vertical markets including telecommunications, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and energy. We deliver qualified consultants and project managers for both contract and ongoing requirements across all science and technology disciplines.
COMSYS has been providing superior information technology talent and solutions to private and public sector clients since 1969. Our reputation as an IT expert is built on three decades of experience as a full-spectrum source for the IT community. The current COMSYS client roster features 35% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Fortune 50, many of which have been clients for more than a decade. COMSYS clients also include more than 1,000 other well-known national and multinational corporations.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, COMSYS offers office locations nationwide. Our broad geographic reach, scalability, and immense talent pool enable us to reliably serve customer needs at the enterprise level.
COMSYS is an EEO/AA Employer.
COMSYS is the leading pure play IT staffing and specialized project solutions provider in North America. We provide superior information technology consultants to help IT managers meet their goals. We have a powerful recruiting process and Web-based technologies that precisely match qualified individuals to customer needs. And, we provide the finest in customized solutions through intimate customer knowledge and vertical industry experience, including:
COMSYS stands ready to provide specialists of varying skills and experience levels, from junior programmers to senior project managers. Representative job classifications, with expertise in every aspect of lifecycle development, include:
Our services are divided into manageable groups or service lines. Each service line has specific capabilities that offer unique and powerful benefits to our clients.
COMSYS is proud of the level of service offered, resulting in one of the broadest technology service offerings, strongest management team and value priced service lines… providing the best value for our client's in today's market. We have over 4,000 people working with clients each and every day.
The COMSYS Project Services Group is comprised of a Technology Center, located in Portland, Oregon and remote project capabilities available through each of our branch locations.
Give us a look, talk to our clients and visit our offices. We want to be your
Technology Partner!
One call. Help is here.
That is essential in today's business environment, where information technology
is progressing at a relentless pace. Understaffed IT departments are faced with
seemingly impossible demands and deadlines. More than ever before, businesses
need trained, ready-to-go IT consultants and project managers to meet their
immediate business objectives. Success depends on having the right people, the
right team on hand to get the job done.
When it comes to locating and recruiting top talent in the information technology sector, there's no better partner than COMSYS, the nation’s largest pure play IT staffing firm. With 32 years experience in IT staffing, COMSYS provides highly skilled individuals to implement virtually any IT project.
National Practice is a term used within COMSYS to designate services being offered on a national or international scale. Sales of these services are performed within the regional sales offices. The following is a brief description of each National Practice currently defined within COMSYS.
COMSYS is currently providing its customers the opportunity to outsource both application development and maintenance projects to off-site facilities. This value-added service provides our customers with the ability to staff and manage a team of COMSYS professionals who will develop, implement, and maintain major applications without incurring the effort and cost related to on-site staffing.
COMSYS has successfully completed multiple development efforts for remote customers using a pool of management and technical resources and facilities located in the Portland and Washington D.C. branch offices. Ongoing projects for multiple customers include three-tiered client/server development, mid-range and mainframe application development, millennium remediation, and mainframe legacy system enhancements.
COMSYS off-site services provide our customers local access to our branch management and corporate recruiting staffs. This results in more management involvement, better staffing emphasis, and improved access to value-added services provided by the Management Services and the Advanced Technology Services teams. These services include project management consulting, project audits, and expertise in diverse technical disciplines, such as client/server, methodologies, tools and network/communications. Off-site services enable COMSYS to provide these additional services on a part-time, as-needed basis in a cost-effective manner, without the overhead, complexities, and cost of on-site services.
Your Virtual Team
Many government initiatives demand a rapid response and new or scarce technical competencies which would require a significant investment in trained, certified personnel. Finding the right individuals to fill such critical or specialized roles can necessitate months of planning and recruiting.
COMSYS Government Services increases your capacity without increasing your costs. We commit to providing the IT consultants that meet your specialized requirements on a just-in-time basis. Your virtual team is activated only on contingency, when and where you need us. Our solution offers ultimate flexibility. No more bench time. The resource is always there. The cost is not. The COMSYS Government Services Group is your safety net.
At any time, we can draw upon our nationwide network of consultants, reference checked, fully evaluated for their technical competency and ready to staff the most challenging assignments. With COMSYS, consultants are rapidly deployed or sourced through our technical niche recruiting system, typically within 24 hours, and qualified using our technical assessment process and Web-based testing and evaluation tools. The qualitative examination phase measures personality and cultural fit using workforce optimization technology. We also tailor our background checking process to meet the needs of specific clients.
COMSYS consultants are accustomed to starting projects on short notice, so that there is virtually no lag time or adjustment period. Your virtual team members simply roll up their sleeves and begin making real, immediate contributions.
Innovative Solutions Development
The COMSYS Government Services Group gives you the flexibility you need. Working closely with your key personnel, your dedicated COMSYS resource team of industry experts and account managers will formulate an innovative sourcing strategy, define the operational model, develop the contract, deliver performance metrics and ensure satisfaction. We deliver best value on procurement metrics, including availability, time to fulfillment, level of service delivery, customer satisfaction and unit cost reduction.
COMSYS' support does not end with placement. It encompasses the full solution life cycle. COMSYS consultants work with a Consultant Services Manager who provides orientation, performance evaluation, career progression and development of an individualized technical learning program. From day one, we empower our consultants to maintain an updated skillset with over 400 CBT course offerings and certification paths with key vendors such as Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft.
Cost Reduction
COMSYS can reduce your marginal costs and overhead at all stages of the recruiting, placement and retention cycle through our proprietary front office technology and industry best practices, carefully built up over 30 years in the business.
As one of the nation's largest pure play IT staffing firms, COMSYS is able to deliver hard cost savings by aggregating volume requirements and cost-minimizing bill rate structures. Our clients also achieve soft cost savings through administrative efficiencies such as continuous selection process improvement and employment of pure Web-based technologies.
Our knowledge and working experience with both legacy and emerging technologies enables us to add value to your unique business scenario while containing costs. Whether you need flexible short-term contract staffing or long-term project management, secure operations support or competitively priced offshore resources, COMSYS can deliver.
COMSYS manages your IT vendors . . . so you can manage your IT business.
Thousands of invoices, dozens of contracts and billing cycles, erratic service
levels, talent shortages, fluctuating costs, innumerable points of contacts,
and no metrics. What's more, you're paying for it.
Vendor Management represents a clear, uncomplicated idea: COMSYS, a large, experienced, and knowledgeable IT staffing vendor, takes full responsibility for managing all of your contingent IT staffing needs.
Vendor Management gives you an efficient and cost-effective process for managing multiple IT staffing vendors, whether independent contractors or specialty suppliers. You deal with one managing vendor, one standardized process, one consolidated invoice, one point of contact while retaining access to the full range of resources offered by a diverse portfolio of vendors.
With Vendor Management, you get a dedicated team of experienced Vendor Management professionals delivering consistent services to meet all of your IT contracting needs and standards. We become an extension of your procurement, human resources, and IT organizations. And you achieve cost savings, better qualified candidates, performance metrics, and reliable quality through economies of scale and the full complement of COMSYS' IT services.
Whatever the requirement, COMSYS is there.
COMSYS Healthcare One is a unique service approach that combines technology
solutions and services with a next-generation healthcare middleware product
called Layer One. COMSYS provides cost effective diverse and custom solutions
for all facets of the healthcare industry.
Whether the client is a provider, facility, payor, employer, supplier, or
pharmaceutical company, COMSYS has the ability to assist and provide services
and technology for projects of any size or scope. COMSYS has the expertise and
resources to function in a project management lead role or provide complimentary
and assistive services under a supporting or subcontractor role.
PROGRAMMER: Works under direct supervision, assisting in the review and analysis of detailed program specifications. Competent to work on several phases of programming with only general direction, but still needs some guidance. Assists in the preparation of all levels of program flow and machine logic flow. Proficient in coding programs in one or more languages. Assists in preparing test data and testing and debugging programs. Assists in the documentation of programming procedures.
PROGRAMMER/ANALYST: Works under general supervision, assisting higher level classifications in devising computer system specifications and record layouts. Competent to work on several phases of small scale business application design. Has the ability to plan, design, and write programs utilizing advanced computer concepts, techniques, and languages. Monitors programming progress in relation to system design. Preferred to have basic concepts of database and/or telecommunications design and has experience in database and/or telecommunications programming.
SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST: Formulates logical statements of business problems and devises procedures for solutions to the problem. Competent to work at the highest level of all technical phases of programming and analysis. Requires little or no supervision. Has the ability to plan, design, and develop complete business applications and programs, utilizing advanced computer concepts, techniques, and languages. Monitors programming progress in relation to deadlines, cost targets, and schedules. Possesses skills in database and/or telecommunications design and programming.
SYSTEMS ANALYST: Performs detailed investigations and analysis in evaluating the function and performance of existing systems. Designs and implements new systems. Is highly skilled in areas of systems approach, problem definition, data gathering, data analysis and communications. Has a proven knowledge of systems controls, documentation, and implementation planning. Is skilled in making better use of data processing machines in relation to the business environment. Has the ability to interface with management and user to define problems, and to design and recommend logical procedures for solving problems. This person should be able to perform programmer and supervisory programming duties.
SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST: Leads the design and implementation of new systems. Uses the latest technology and structured methodologies to develop system approaches, define problems, gather data, provide analysis, and communicate findings verbally and in written form. Maximizes use of hardware and software tools available through system controls, documentation, and implementation planning. Interfaces, continually, with managers and users to define and correct design problems. Designs and recommends logical problem solution procedures.
PROJECT LEADER: Establishes overall system objectives and functions based on user needs and information requirements in specific areas (such as inventory control, financial management information systems, utility billing systems, etc.). Determines systems requirements and plans specific projects leading to the design and implementation of computer systems. Consults on methodologies necessary to accomplish planned project objectives. Consults on the analysis, design, programming, implementation and audit of systems. Consults with and advises other departments with regard to feasibility, systems and procedures, and records control studies and problems. Consults with various user departments involved with the project. Responsible for timing aspects of data processing hardware, software, applications and operations.
PROJECT MANAGER: Consults on the establishment of overall system objectives, function, and information requirements developed by project leaders. Consults in the development of specific project plans that lead to the design and development of computer systems. Supervises the development of a computer system which may consist of several sub systems and a staff of 10 to 20 persons. Consults with user departments with regard to feasibility, systems and procedures, hardware evaluations, and project controls.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Responsible for the administration of personnel involved in the development of large-scale computer systems. Provides technical direction to the project team for the feasibility, project planning and control, and implementation of the computer system. Consults with user departments and project leaders with regard to analysis, design, programming, implementation, audit, procedures, and project problems. Project Director may be responsible for 20 or more persons involved in the development of computer systems.
SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER: Has the ability to create and/or maintain operating systems, monitor database packages, compilers, assemblers, utility programs. Has the ability to support applications programmers, provide hardware/software planning and evaluations, modify existing and create new software, maintain and modify vendor software packages, and ensure systems efficiency.
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR: Technician experienced in the installation, support and management of a Unix or other desktop system.
DATABASE ANALYST: Has the ability to design and control the use of an organization's data resources. Can analyze the interrelationships of data usage and define physical data structures as well as logical data sets. This person generally works under the supervision of the Database Administrator.
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR: Responsible for the logical and physical design, development, operation, safeguarding, maintenance, and use of a database. Additionally, responsible for defining the rules by which data is accessed and stored, as well as database integrity, security, performance, and recovery. Generally, authorized to issue system programmer and operator commands and responsible for maximizing auxiliary storage space.
CAPACITY PLANNER: Has the ability to estimate the number and type of transactions accessed and generated in a specific time period and the size of the datebase required for a specific computer system. This information, in conjunction with the system requirements for response time, must be analyzed along with the constraints of the general system architecture (LANs. WANs, shared databases, future development, migration timetables, etc.), to allow the Capacity Planner to recommend an appropriate hardware/software mix. Must be able to balance existing workloads (fine-tuning) to get the most efficient use of resources, and the most effective user-service levels. Must be able to foresee capacity problems well in advance, and come up with enough lead time to assure that the right equipment is in place precisely when needed.
LAN/WAN SPECIALIST: Has the ability to access communication requirements and to recommend the appropriate Local Area Network or Wide Area Network. Has the ability to troubleshoot and review existing networks and to recommend appropriate changes. Requires knowledge of electronics, available hardware and software for networks, and communication skills.
DATA COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST: Performs or directs complex technical functions relating to communications systems design, analysis and management of data, voice or radio communications networks; plans, designs, evaluates and recommends improvement of communications networks for more efficient and economical use of systems; assists and advises clients in the use of available communications systems; provides technical assistance, guidance, and advice in areas of specialty to project teams; and acts as technical consultant in the procurement, retention, installation and use of voice communications, data communications, radio communication equipment and services. This position requires at least four years of progressive experience in communications systems design. Requires extensive knowledge in electronic communications media to include either telecommunications, data processing communications or radio communications systems.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST: An experienced systems programmer who has skills and knowledge in communications technology as well as computer technology.
CLIENT/SERVER SPECIALIST: Senior technical professional with experience in system analysis and design in a client/server environment. Must be able to supervise other team members and communicate well with business area analysts. Must have ability to convert logical system designs into workable technical designs.
HELP DESK COORDINATOR: Individual responsible for taking problem calls, normally from users, and either resolving the problem over the phone, or turning the problem over to an experienced technician.
DOCUMENTATION SPECIALIST: Individual experienced with word processing and/or other document production software.
TECHNICAL WRITER: Has the ability to write software or hardware documentation, marketing literature, operation procedures, end user manuals, educational courses, proposals, service and installation manuals, and executive summaries for new and existing products or application systems. Has strong oral and written communication skills. Is able to communicate with both technical and executive-level clients. Has or can obtain a working knowledge of the product, process and industry.
BUSINESS AREA ANALYST: Analyst with broad background in system analysis and design. Capable of supervising other team members and communicating effectively with users. Able to translate user business needs into high-level technical concepts.
ERP SPECIALIST: Individuals possessing either functional knowledge, technical knowledge, or a combination of the two specifically related to the FIT/GAP analysis, implementation and/or ongoing support of leading ERP software packages.
QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST: Senior professional with a strong background in applications development and management. Must be able to create quality standards for the full lifecycle of the project. Will possess excellent communication skills.
TECHNICAL TRAINING SPECIALIST: Individual knowledgeable of technical applications and capable of training users in the use of a software or hardware product.